Nora: A Broken Doll’s House

photo by Carol Rosegg
Nora
Cherry Lane Theatre
38 Commerce Street
Ingmar Bergman would often condense or re-think some plays by Ibsen and Strindberg if he thought of them as his special territory, shifting scenes, cutting others, and sometimes even adding some scenes of his own. The results were so intensely his and so impressive that few critics questioned what he would do with certain texts. It was felt, and rightly so, that Bergman had earned the privilege of taking some liberties with the cl